pfarrell;538296 Wrote: > > In general, static IP addresses entered manually is a really bad idea. > That is how the Internet worked for the first years, and if you pick a > duplicate number, things break badly. That is why DHCP was invented.
...drifting off-topic... For *public* addresses? I'm not, nor have I ever been, a full-time network guy, but I have never seen, nor heard of, anyone using DHCP on the public Internet. DHCP is what you use on your company's internal network. I guess I *have* seen DHCP used with addresses properly assigned by the IANA, but not for publicly-reachable addresses. This was just a company with a forward-looking IT guy who requested some address blocks back when they were easy to get, well before we started reading about that fancy Mosaic software from the kids downstate. If you've got enough /24 (and larger) blocks to cover your internal network, why not use "real" addresses for private space? It does make VPN with businesses partners easier when you know they aren't, or darn well shouldn't be, using the same address ranges. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ Free plugins: 'AllQuiet' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AllQuiet.html) 'Auto Dim/AutoDisplay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/AutoDisplay.html) 'BlankSaver' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/BlankSaver.html) 'ContextMenu' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/ContextMenu.html) 'DenonSerial' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/DenonSerial.html) 'FuzzyTime' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/FuzzyTime.html) 'KidsPlay' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KidsPlay.html) 'KitchenTimer' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/KitchenTimer.html) 'PlayLog' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PlayLog.html) 'PowerCenter/BottleRocket' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/PowerCenter.html) 'SaverSwitcher' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html) 'SettingsManager' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html) 'SleepFade' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SleepFade.html) 'StatusFirst' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/StatusFirst.html) 'SyncOptions' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SyncOptions.html) 'VolumeLock' (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/VolumeLock.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77625 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
